We are excited to announce that we have been awarded £20,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund. The money will be used to fund an IT tutor for our refuges to help the residents with CV writing and IT skills.
“We recognise the impact domestic abuse can have on individuals’ self-esteem, confidence, and mental health,” states Shazana Rasib, Accommodation Services Manager. “As well as providing safety, we offer a holistic and trauma informed approach to support and empower individuals and families living in our refuges and dispersed properties. The IT tutor will enable us to work with individuals to help build their confidence around digital safety, practical uses of online banking, welfare benefits, accessing health appointments, searching for suitable housing and connecting with employment and training opportunities.”
“We are always looking for ways to provide practical solutions to survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence,” states Yasmin Khan, CEO Staying Put Group. “The funding from the National Lottery Community Fund will add real value and will ensure that we can support women to build up their confidence and gain IT skills whilst living in our accommodation, which they need for independent living.”
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.
As part of this, we support the funder four key missions, which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.
National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3 million) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
Often, women come to our refuges with nothing. £12 could buy toiletry essentials (shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste, toothbrush and deodorant) for a woman in our refuge for one month. Donate now.